10 Years After

Long Distance Moan

I had emailed the linguistic professor that I spoke to a few weeks ago and received a reply earlier today. I was led to believe that he was going to Europe during the first part of the summer and would then be doing some sort of linguistic project in the later half of the summer. I also offered to return his book when he returned from Europe. His reply was rather welcoming:

Glad to hear that you found the book interesting. I won't be going to
Europe this summer after all--I simply have too many things to do around
here to justify spending about 6 weeks away from the office. So, I plan
to be in my office most every day, if not every day, for at a few
hours--from 10 to 2ish seems reasonable to me. I'd very much enjoy
getting together with you and talking some more.

As for a project later this summer, J---- B---- will be doing some
field work to gather some language data. I think if you're interested
in something like, it might be good if the two of you work on it
together. There is also another project that might happen that has to
do with word order changes in subordinate clauses in Old English. I
still need to do some preliminary work to see if spending more time on
this will pan out in the way that I'd like to see it pan out. In any
case, come by my office sometime this week or next. Just to make sure
I'll be here and you don't waste your time in coming to campus, give me
a time frame, and I'll be sure to be here. We can talk about your plans
and these projects that we'll try to get going.

Best,
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Hopefully he'll be able to help me get into Columbia. With my gpa below a 3.0 I'm more than a bit worried . . .

Also, I spent some time with my parents this evening. To make a long story short, while at Wal-Mart I ran in a T.A. in the history department that I vaguely know. Man, that can can talk your ear off. What he has to say is intersting, though at times it's very difficult to make out what he is saying. I have to admit, I love the fact that when I do see him he is keen on chatting. he was talking tonight about wanting to do his Phd in Hawaii or Indonesia.